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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of engagements he and his advisers have had with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30002/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in County Donegal that have been approved to date under the MICA scheme; the number of applications currently under assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason persons cannot receive 100% of costs covered under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30005/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise a very sensitive matter this morning relating to the mother and baby homes. Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the decision of Professor Mary Daly, one of the members of the commission, to appear at an academic event in Oxford, having previously refused to come before the Oireachtas children's committee. She appeared at the event yesterday. Devastating revelations and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. He went much further than the Taoiseach yesterday and I respect that. There are two aspects to this. Calling on the commission members to appear in front of the Oireachtas children's committee should absolutely happen but we know we are limited in whether they will or will not do that. They should do that. However, there is a more fundamental...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Why not tell people that?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: For a number of weeks now, I have been raising an issue on behalf of more than 500,000 people, those who have got their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. These are mostly 60-year-olds to 69-year-olds but they also include some over 50s, some of whom are in cohort 4 and some healthcare workers who got it earlier. These people are in some cases the most vulnerable but they will have the...

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act further to regulate in accordance with the principles of social justice and to delimit by law the exercise of private property rights, insofar as such exercise gives rise to the assessment of compensation payable by local authorities in respect of the compulsory acquisition of development land, with a view to reconciling the...

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State. Our mental health service capacity was in crisis before Covid-19 first arrived on our shores. The pandemic has only further exposed the gaps that exist in our mental health system. As it stands, more than 2,500 children are waiting for access to child and adolescent mental health services and over 10,000 people are waiting for a psychology appointment through...

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for confirming that. A pathway towards some mental health beds in my own county would also be welcome.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: For many weeks and, indeed, months, I have been raising the same issue with the Taoiseach in regard to people in the 60 to 69 age group, some people in cohorts 4 and 7, and also some healthcare workers, all of whom were vaccinated with AstraZeneca and who initially had a 14-week wait for their second dose and then a 12-week wait. I am not an immunologist or a scientist, and nor is the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I do commonsense though.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: No, but I am coming to that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach is answering a question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: That is not appropriate. I never said that so the Taoiseach is answering a question I did not even ask.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I have been raising this matter repeatedly for a couple of months and, in fairness, the Taoiseach's tone just now was appalling if he was using the matter in a political way. I did not raise the question of a second mRNA vaccine but I had asked if that option had been considered by NIAC. I did not raise it today, although I will always make suggestions that might be considered. I raise...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is what I have been seeking for months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Not in that detail.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach has repeatedly said that his number one priority is housing. Over the last eight years, house prices have risen by 68%. As the Taoiseach is aware, my party is putting forward a Bill tomorrow to implement the Kenny report, which the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, has already said is necessary and it supports it. The land is a large component of the cost of...